[CPEO-BIF] Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Washington College's toxic expansion

Tim Wheeler
B'More Green/Baltmore Sun
October 14, 2009

Washington College is looking to expand its Chestertown campus by 
purchasing some land on the Chester River, where the small liberal arts 
school intends to build environmental laboratories, as well as a new 
boathouse, classrooms, and a dormitory. The move was announced last year.

The college couldn't ask for a better place to study the environment, 
since the five-acre riverfront tract it's acquiring is apparently 
contaminated with the toxic legacy of a farm chemical storage businesses 
that once occupied the sites. An investigation earlier this year found 
the soil tainted with high levels of toxaphene, a now-banned 
insecticide; arsenic, chromium and other hazardous substances, according 
to the Maryland Department of the Environment.

College officials have said they plan to forge ahead, despite a 
consultant's estimate that it could cost $1.6 million to get rid of the 
tainted soil. The school hopes to get a $400,000 federal "brownfields" 
grant to help with the cleanup once it acquires the property. Officals 
plan to close the deal today.

...

For the entire article, see
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/features/green/2009/10/washington_colleges_toxic_expa.html


See also
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/features/green/2009/10/washington_college_defends_bro.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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